Why do students dropout? This is a question that has been ask for a very long time, and is still questioned today. There has been research done that shows that teens dropout mainly because they have no interest in school, they had poor grades, been suspended, and two of the most important problems why there are a lot of dropouts are because of teen pregnancy and because some are doing time in jail. Dropout rates are about the same for both sexes, but the rates differ for students from different backgrounds. Why blacks and Hispanics dropouts are rates higher than white? Whites compose of two-thirds of the of their total populations and they contributes the greater numbers of dropouts. Research shows also that teens are doing out every nine seconds in America. Some rates are higher for students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Back in 1993 the dropout rate was: 7.9 percent for white students, compared to 13.6 percent for black students and 27.5 percent for Hispanic students, and 2.7 percent for students with a high family income level, compared to 23.9 percent for students with a low family income level. As the years go by dropout rates for males and females have been similar, although in earlier year’s dropout rates for males tended to be higher than those for females. Researchers also found out that dropping out is a process not a event, and also found out that most at-risk students do not drop out. Even though teens dropout out at a young age some of them return back to school to recover their education to enhance the way they think, because when you are young you don’t really think that school is an important factor in life but it really is. Without your high school diploma sometimes it is hard to get a job, especially today.
Http://www.focusas.com/Dropouts.html http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ReachingGoals/Goal_2/Dropouts.html
